Sony Ericsson W595

Sony Ericsson W595

The all new Sony Ericsson W595 is a cute and attractive slider phone that comes in with an FM radio, 3.2 megapixel camera with a 2GB memory card and of course an outstanding sound system associated with the Walkman 3.0 music player unique to Sony Ericsson. The other features for the 3G (with HSDPA) enabled phone include Bluetooth and its ultra cool shake control feature. One has a wide variety of choices when it comes to colors being offered and they include Blue, Black, White, Grey with a floral pattern (Sakura).

The first look of the phone would surprise and even deceive you owing to the huge amount of resemblance it bears because it looks like an exact copy of Sony’s previous line, the W980i. So what is so dissimilar about the new W595 that Sony had to launch it separately? The very reason why W580i and W910i were unpopular contributed toward such a step. W980i was an eye-catching beauty until the phone was switched on and lo it ended right there! The W580i phone faced the problem of being very brittle and a lot of such complaints were lodged against the model.

Sony Ericsson W595 Features

W595 promises to be stronger than its predecessors weighing heavier by 20 gms for the new firmware but on the reliability part, the company still needs to work a lot in terms of restoring trust among customers.

On the outside the phone has a rubbery finish which gives a better grip to the holder and is slightly taller than normal phone size. The grip however seems to vanish once the phone is opened sliding up and this can make handling an open phone a little tougher unless you grip the keypad which invariably you do.

He screen is 2.2 inches which is by no means a very great sized screen but the TFT display has been equipped with accelerometer sensor for auto-rotate. The phone is Java enabled with MIDP 2.0 installed in it.

The 950mAh battery is an excellent choice too, something that only the Premier sets of Nokia offer, the W595 claims of a massive nine hours of talk time and 385 hours on standby. It can run up to 26 hours on music and around 4.5 hours on a 3G phone.

Heavily geared towards social networking websites over a phone, the W595 allows one to upload pictures to Facebook, MySpace and Bebo and video to YouTube.

Sony Ericsson W595 Review

One the negative side however, one would be disappointed by the handset as it can get sufficiently get warm when in use, the 2GB bundled M2 card saves up for the hideous 40 MB memory of the phone itself, The camera offers a better quality in terms of better megapixel but however lacks flash which restricts dim light photography and low quality pictures despite the better camera and the most shocking drawback of the phone is that there’s no 3.5mm headphone jack.

Other special features may include the voice dialing facility, a louder and clearer speakerphone and premium games like Pacman and Worms 2007 (though they are Demo versions only)

The looks of the phone may be uninspiring, it may seem generic but it is not a model to be judged by its looks alone. Sony Ericsson has taken pains to design the W595 and its excellence is very well seen when one uses it. The features that it offers would not be easily available when you associate the price with it. The phone seems to be quite reasonable on that front and has been more than quite a welcome in the marketplace.